Flip the Script: Empowering Students to Move from Victim To Resiliency by Using Their Own Voices Students face an array of circumstances that could discourage them from finding hope inside and outside the classroom. This presentation serves as a platform for educators to participate in a discourse on resiliency research, consider how to select literature and/or experiences, and develop strategies to become turnaround mentors by empowering students to use their own voices through written expression.
Presenters: Synthia Shelby, Literacy Consultant, KDE Dr. Kimberly Johnson Dr. Kimberly Johnson
-Member of the National Writing Project -English/Language Arts teacher for ten years (grades 6-9) -Member of the International Reading Association
Synthia Shelby - Literacy Consultant - KDE - State Literacy Team member - Previous Language Arts/Social Studies Teacher (Grades 6-8) - Kentucky Reading Association Board member – 3 years
To Resiliency by Using Their Own Voices
Students face an array of circumstances that could discourage them
from finding hope inside and outside the classroom. This presentation
serves as a platform for educators to participate in a discourse on
resiliency research, consider how to select literature and/or
experiences, and develop strategies to become turnaround mentors
by empowering students to use their own voices through written
expression.
Presenters: Synthia Shelby, Literacy Consultant, KDE
Dr. Kimberly Johnson
Dr. Kimberly Johnson
-Member of the National Writing Project
-English/Language Arts teacher for ten years (grades 6-9)
-Member of the International Reading Association
Synthia Shelby
- Literacy Consultant - KDE
- State Literacy Team member
- Previous Language Arts/Social Studies Teacher (Grades 6-8)
- Kentucky Reading Association Board member – 3 years